Biography

Anna Ritchie is a tax associate in London. She advises on a broad range of UK and international corporate tax matters including restructurings, private equity and M&A transactions, reorganisations and financings.
Representative experience as part of a team, including prior to joining Weil, includes advising:
- Carestream Dental Technology Parent Limited, a portfolio company of CD&R, in its $185 million offering of senior unsecured PIK convertible notes in connection with the restructuring of its debt
- Oaktree Capital Management on the merger of its portfolio company Zzoomm with Full Fibre creating one of the largest full fibre footprints
- PSG Equity on its investment in Glasswall, an industry-leading provider of intelligent zero-trust file protections solutions
- PSG Equity on its sale of Mapal to Eurazo
- Vialto Partners, a CD&R portfolio company, on its consensual recapitalization and refinancing of its c. $1.7 billion of first-lien and second-lien debt facilities
Prior to joining Weil, Anna was a lawyer in a leading tax practice at an Australian firm in Sydney.
Latest Thinking, Firm News & Announcements
Latest Thinking
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The VAT Fundraising Exemption: Updates to HMRC Guidance
Blog Post — Tax Blog
— By
Oliver Walker,
Stuart Pibworth and
Anna Ritchie
— June 26, 2025
On 13 June 2025, HM Revenue and Customs (“HMRC”) published a Revenue and Customs Brief (the “Brief”) which sets out HMRC’s position on the VAT exemption for fundraising events following the Upper Tribunal (“UT”|) judgment in The Commissioners for HM Revenue and Customs v Yorkshire Agricultural Society [2025] UKUT 00004 (TCC). Background Under UK VAT
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